Fine words are not enough; Obama must seize the day

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Simply by standing there once again, behind five sides of bulletproof glass,
gazing down the National Mall at the legions who had begun arriving with the
dawn, the achievement of Barack Obama became one for the ages.

The first African-American President heralded his four more years on Martin
Luther King Jr Day. For a country that loves its epic journeys, not much can
rival the 50-year march from King’s Dream speech at the other end of this
avenue of monuments to the honouring of the Obama family at